{"id":1093,"date":"2026-05-27T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pomegranatemag.co.uk\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:22:55","slug":"dark-romance-dissecting-booktoks-controversial-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pomegranatemag.co.uk\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Dark romance: dissecting BookTok\u2019s controversial trend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>This article mentions sexual assault, non-consensual sex, stalking, kidnapping, abuse, manipulation, coercive control, toxic relationships, violence, torture, Stockholm Syndrome, obsessive behaviour, psychopathic behaviour, child sexual abuse references, misogyny, consent and unhealthy relationship dynamics. Reader discretion is advised.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deep in the heart of BookTok lies the world of dark romance, where danger never looked so good. With love interests ranging from misunderstood bully to serial killer\u2026 it\u2019s a genre which frequently walks the tightrope between \u2018right\u2019 and \u2018wrong\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI love when a protagonist gets swept up by someone twisted,\u201d says UK-based reader Sofie, 24, \u201cwatching them question everything they thought they knew about love: how consuming, obsessive, and dark it can become is so exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dark romance isn\u2019t your traditional love story.&nbsp;Love interests are morally complex &#8211; often boasting a violent or criminal past and even exhibiting psychopathic tendencies. Themes of sex, manipulation, blurred consent, power dynamics, Stockholm Syndrome and even torture aren\u2019t uncommon. Most dark romances have trigger warnings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Online however, cautions are rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cComing across dark romance scared me and made me feel uncomfortable,\u201d says UK-based reader Cait, 21, who encountered a BookTok creator praising a novel in which the love interest sexually assaults the protagonist. \u201cI don\u2019t understand the romanticisation of non-consensual sex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to TikTok hashtag analytics trackers, #darkromance has amassed billions of views across more than a million posts. A lot of dark romance TikToks lean into fantasy-driven, &#8216;dangerous obsession&#8217; aesthetics. Common BookToks include masked men in hoodies or suits with captions like <em>&#8216;Let me ruin your life<\/em>&#8216;, <em>&#8216;You\u2019d look prettier locked in my house<\/em>&#8216;, or <em>&#8216;POV: your kidnapper falls first.<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These popular videos have undeniably boosted sales for niche dark romance titles, propelling the genre into the mainstream. And if there\u2019s a place where controversy thrives &#8211; it\u2019s TikTok. Many users defend dark romance as simply fiction, while others worry it blurs the line between fantasy and reality, normalising toxic behaviours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada-based reader Lorraine, 28, says: \u201cMany BookTok creators recommend these stories without giving trigger warnings or age restrictions. Young people are consuming this content while they\u2019re still forming ideas about relationships. A lot of videos don\u2019t clarify that these dynamics aren\u2019t healthy in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under a thirst trap inspired by popular dark romance book <em>Haunting Adeline<\/em> (where the protagonist, ultimately, falls in love with her stalker), the comments included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018This is SO sexy\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018I love when the love interest doesn\u2019t have the same capacity for morality.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One fan asked for a similar recommendation, saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2019I want something really dark. Like, I don\u2019t want the female character to be so<\/em> <em>willing. Non-con recs please?\u2019<\/em> Non-con &#8211; short for non-consensual sex &#8211; is a popular trope in dark romance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But amidst the excitable comments, one user wrote:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018<em>So as long as he\u2019s hot, good in bed, and pays attention to you, who cares if he\u2019s a stalker right? Ridiculous<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another: \u2018<em>This is so problematic! Talk about setting feminism back fifty years.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the anti-feminist criticism, the majority of dark romance readers and creators are actually women. All of the interviewees for this article were women: reporting no problem in separating dark fiction from acceptable romantic behaviour in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alicia is a published fantasy author, currently writing a new dark romance book under the pen name \u2018A. J. Dugan\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She says: \u201cI know a lot of the things portrayed in dark romance aren\u2019t the healthiest to bring into the real world. It\u2019s an escape, just as much as movies and video games are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI like stories that feel more real and characters who feel more real. Dark romance as an element of danger, of worlds unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Typically the love interest would do anything and everything to protect the main character.&nbsp;I have a background with a lot of trauma in it, so stories where even the \u2018worst\u2019 parts of someone are loved to their fullest heals something in me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite liking dark romance, Alicia says there\u2019s a line &#8211; one author was recently charged for her book, <em>Daddy\u2019s Little Toy<\/em> which featured child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UK-based reader Claire, 21, relates the popularity of dark romance to our current social climate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople in the modern world could be experiencing a desensitisation to a lot of things,\u201d Claire says, \u201csadly we see a lot of cruelty and abuse in the media, we hear a lot of abuse stories from day to day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a result, maybe that small town romance people once really enjoyed isn\u2019t giving the fulfilment and joy it once did. People now maybe feel a desire to explore the darker themes because that\u2019s what we\u2019re exposed to in society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not really boy meets girl anymore, it\u2019s girl goes through trauma with the love of her dreams yet comes out of it better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author Alicia adds: \u201cDark romance has always existed. But BookTok is a world of it\u2019s own. I do think the comments take it too far with how they sexualise characters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s true that dark romance dates back centuries.&nbsp;Take the recently Elordi-fied <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>, with its destructive heroine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lorraine concludes: \u201cAt the end of the day people are always going to find a way to interact with dark romance because they enjoy it and it speaks to them. Greater TikTok restrictions would probably just change the platform people used.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Gayle Brewer has worked in relationship psychology for over twenty years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She says: \u201cFiction can provide people with a way to explore their relationship or sexual interests in a relatively safe environment. It can also prompt discussion of important topics such as power and control.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis can, however, be problematic if it affects our judgement about appropriate romantic and sexual behaviour such as the importance of consent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dark romance is unlikely to disappear from BookTok anytime soon. Its presence online, in literature, and in the art we consume is seemingly integrated into society. 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